Author Archives: stuartelden

Saskia Sassen on Disposable Life (video)

Posted on December 31, 2014 by stuartelden

Saskia Sassen discusses ‘disposable life’ for the Histories of Violence project. This covers similar themes to her Expulsions book. Thanks to Oli Mould for the link. Disposable Life – Saskia Sassen from HISTORIES OF VIOLENCE on Vimeo.

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2014 in review (WordPress stats for Progressive Geographies)

Posted on December 30, 2014 by stuartelden

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Thanks for reading! Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 450,000 times in 2014. If it were … Continue reading →

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Negri: A Marxist Experience of Foucault

Posted on December 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
Generation online has posted Arianna Bove’s translation of Negri’s presentation from the Marx-Foucault Colloquium at Nanterre, December 18-19, 2014.

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David Harvey, The Crisis of Planetary Urbanization (open access essay)

Posted on December 30, 2014 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s essay for the exhibition catalog of Uneven Growth Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities is published here on post to mark the opening of the exhibition. (via Reading Capital with David Harvey)  

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David Harvey, “I’m skeptical about the idea of reforming neoliberalism” – translation of Spanish interview

Posted on December 30, 2014 by stuartelden

A Spanish interview with David Harvey has been translated at My Desiring Machines. I’m not sure if it was conducted in Spanish or this is a re-translation. Anyway, it’s nice to have it available. It was posted in parts, but … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler, ‘Human Shield’ – lecture at LSE 4 February 2015

Posted on December 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Judith Butler, ‘Human Shield’ – lecture at LSE on 4 February 2015 (details) Recent debates about human shields in the summer bombardment of Gaza raised the question of how the unarmed human form comes to be regarded as a military instrument. … Continue reading →

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Foucault – uncollected notes, lectures and interviews, a list on Progressive Geographies

Posted on December 29, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve made a list of uncollected notes, lectures and interviews by Michel Foucault. Many of these have been posted on this site before, but this is an attempt at collecting details and links in one place. There are a couple of scans … Continue reading →

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Posted on December 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin Time Magazine profile of Foucault from 1981 Étienne Balibar discusses Foucault’s La société punitive, with a response from Judith Butler Foucault and Iran (and Ernst … Continue reading →

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The other Henri Lefebvre – excerpt from The Missing Pieces in Berfrois

Posted on December 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Although it appears in at least one bibliography of the better-known Henri Lefebvre, Les unités perdues, translated as The Missing Pieces, is actually by a different author, born in 1959. It’s an interesting book on abandoned, lost, destroyed, forgotten and unfinished works, … Continue reading →

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Verso ebook sale – 90% off until January 1st 2015

Posted on December 27, 2014 by stuartelden

Verso have an ebook sale – 90% off until January 1st 2015. I picked up nine for less than £15 – books by Eric Hazan, Danny Dorling, Slavoj Zizek, Shlomo Sand, Walter Benjamin, Stanley Aronowitz, Keller Easterling, Arundhati Roy and Marcus … Continue reading →

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